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Alex Gibney is one of the best documentary directors working today, making his way from one controversial topic to another — Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and Taxi to the Dark Side, which we showed in 2007, and went on to win a Best Documentary Oscar.

Not exact matches

Dan Malloy, the director of «Harvesting Liberty,» is a farmer / surfer / environmentalist who has worked in various capacities in the making of previous Patagonia - produced documentaries.

Lindsay - Hogg is the eminent film, television and theatre director whose work includes the 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be, about the band's recording of their final studio album, while Della Sciucca is a writer, director, designer and illustrator.

For my next project, Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle, I'm working with another director, Lee Skelly, on a documentary which will examine the failures and deception behind the social housing crisis.

When introducing his latest documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday night, director Alex Gibney joked that he was leaning towards keeping the name of his «mostly finished but not quite done» work the «Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film» because he'd never before made a film where he was «so uncertain about where [he] was going... and what the conclusions would be,» given the «divisive» nature of his subject.

Venue: Sundance Film Festival (U.S. Documentary Competition) Production companies: Story, Hard Working Movies, in association with Sveriges Television, Film Vast Director: Sara Jordeno Writers: Sara Jordeno, Twiggy Pucci Garcon Producers: Annika Rogell, Lori Cheatle Executive producer: Tobias Janson Director of photography: Naiti Gamez Music: Qween Beat Editor: Rasmus Ohlander Sales: Submarine Not rated, 94 minutes

The Outsider, Nicholas Jarecki's starstruck documentary about the writer and director James Toback, is a tragically missed opportunity to illuminate one of the more unusual cinematic talents working today.

Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 thriller When Will I be Loved.

Beautifully but simply wrought by director Cindy Meehl, this deft documentary is a poignant reappraisal of what it means to be human.

Working again in his native Baltimore, the writer - director maintains the documentary - style feel for place that has infused all his features.

In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field.

Some of the jokes fall flat, others are badly telegraphed and it weaves in and out of being a documentary and just a film to the point of distraction but it ' s hard for me to dislike the movie since I ' ve worked with people like this especially the director, Harry Penderecki... only not as likeable.

Director Matt Wolf's critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992.

Cinephiles, especially those enthusiastic about the avant - garde, are probably familiar with Robert Gardner «s series Screening Room, which hosted numerous directors working in documentary and experimental film in the 1970s and early»80s.

In some of the most striking passages in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck implicitly connects The Devil Finds Work with the tradition of Marlon Riggs's Ethnic Notions and Spike Lee's Bamboozled, films that reimagine cinematic history as a site of racial excavation.

A-list director Ron Howard worked with the surviving Beatles to assemble this engaging documentary, which offers an inside look at Beatlemania, the three years when the best pop band in history toured the world.

Our goal is to recognize and honor the outstanding work of women directors of narrative features, documentaries and shorts.

She also worked at Arts Engine in NYC as a documentary film producer and Director of the Media That Matters Film Festival.

After graduation, he worked as an assistant director for TV commercials, documentaries, and feature films.

Best Actor — Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant Best Actress — Brie Larson, Room Best Animated Film - Inside Out Best Body of Work — Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, The Danish Girl, Testament of Youth Best Director — George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road Best Documentary - Amy Best First Feature — Alex Garland, Ex Machina Best Foreign Language Film - Son of Saul Best Original Screenplay - Spotlight Best Adapted Screenplay — Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short Best Supporting Actor — Michael Keaton, Spotlight and Sylvester Stallone, Creed (tie) Best Supporting Actress — Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina Most Disappointing Film - Tomorrowland

The Haitian director's dissection of a nation defined by dysfunctional race relations provides the complexity, emotion and analytical respect that Baldwin's astute work has long deserved; this extraordinarily moving and artfully rendered film is the nominee to beat in this year's Best Documentary Oscar showdown.

Best Actor — Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Best Actress — Amy Adams, Arrival Best Animated Film - Zootopia Best Body of Work — Amy Adams, Arrival, Nocturnal Animals Best Director — Damien Chazelle, La La Land Best Documentary - OJ: Made in America Best Ensemble Cast - Manchester by the Sea Best First Feature — Robert Eggers, The Witch Best Foreign Language Film - The Handmaiden Best Original Screenplay - Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay — Eric Heisserer, Arrival Best Supporting Actor — Mahershala Ali, Moonlight Best Supporting Actress — Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea Most Disappointing Film - Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

Subsequently working with Lamberto Bava in such efforts as 1985's Demons, the aspiring director would serve as director of the documentary Dario Argento's World of Horror as well as a promotional Bill Wyman rock video (both 1985) before embarking on his maiden voyage as a director with Stage Fright (1987).

Director Yasemin Samdereli worked through doubts about her own marriage by making a documentary about long - term relationships and what makes them last.

Nanette Burstein is an acclaimed filmmaker whose work has won her several awards, including an Academy Award nomination for her documentary «On The Ropes,» two Emmy awards for «NY77,» and a Sundance Best Director award for «American Teen.»

The Oscar - winning director of Taxi to the Darkside and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room tells Jason Solomons about his new documentary, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson

Grace Lee is an independent producer / director and writer working in both narrative and non-fiction film.She directed the 2014 Peabody Award - winning documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution Of Grace Lee Boggs, which The Hollywood Reporter called» an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.»

Sundance Institute is delighted to introduce our six new Women at Sundance Fellows, a diverse group of filmmakers working as producers and directors in the documentary and narrative fields.

This film isn't the work of a director who has an idea for a documentary and decides to gather new footage or mine soundbites to make what they want.

The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects interviews with many of modern - day Hollywood's finest directors of photography and is illustrated by examples of their best work as well as scenes from the pictures which most influenced them.

A-list director Ron Howard worked with the surviving Beatles to assemble this engaging documentary, which...

Tara Wood will direct the Quentin Tarantino documentary which follows her work on last year's similarly themed 21 Years: Richard Linklater, which focussed on the US director of films like Slacker, Before Sunrise and Boyhood.

More broadly, he's been involved in various stuff (including playing a Zombie in Shaun of the Dead, which is documented by him in one of the DVD extras), and as far as I can tell, him and Adam are part of a loose circle of friends that includes Edgar Wright, Louis Theroux (interesting TV documentary film maker), Garth Jennings (director of Son of Rambow & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), and a few others that slip my mind — you tend to get some cross over in the work of all these guys.

Laura Poitras — «Citizenfour» Easily the most talked - about non-fiction film of the year, a front - runner for the Documentary Oscar (and even, some suggest, a dark horse for a Best Picture nomination), «Citizenfour» looks to make director Laura Poitras, if she wasn't already, one of the best known documentarians working today.

With a 30 minute running time, it goes by way too fast but it is a great documentary that highlights the joy that Scorsese had in making the film with his cast and crew and how much they all loved going to work with the masterful director.

A truly bizarre documentary from directors Jean Libon and Yves Hinant follows Belgian Judge Anne Gruwez as she goes about her work.

Over three years, director Alexandra Cuerdo focused her documentary Ulam (which translates to «main dish» in Tagalog) on several Filipino - American chefs and restaurant owners working to make Philippine cuisine better known and appreciated.

Academy - award winning director William Friedkin discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the techniques he used to generate suspense and fear in the audience, his use of subliminal imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.

Neither of the two Werner Herzog documentaries released in theaters this year rank among the director's best work, in part because they're too scattered to achieve a cumulative power.

It is written by Robert Weide, director of Woody Allen: A Documentary and recently worked on the Woody Allen segment at the Golden Globes.

Women comprised 39 % of directors working on documentaries and 18 % of directors working on narrative features.

No matter what, the newest film from Jones is an eighty minute course on the work of Hitchcock, who inspired the young Truffaut, and the cavalcade of directors that Jones interviewed in this documentary.

Along with a telestrator commentary with writer / director McKittrick and producer Jeff Balis that's subpar at best, disc two includes a short interview with three real - life servers («Sending It Back: The Real Dish on Waiting Tables»), scene specific audio commentaries and casting tapes («Side Dishes»), as well as «The Works,» a longer, rehashed version of the documentary found on disc one.

Director Jairus McLeary accepts the grand jury prize for documentary feature for his film «The Work,» co-directed by Gethin Aldous.

Other prestigious Jurors at NVFF 2013 included Dierk Sindermann, a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press; Lissa Gibbs, producer of educational and network documentaries; Jennifer Siebel Newsom, producer / director of the award winning Miss Representation; Musician and film director Dave Grohl; actresses Rose McGowan (Charmed) and Madeline Zima (Californication); Paul Duffy, Amazon Web Services executive; Ryan Tudhope, co-founder Atomic Fiction; and Neil Berkeley, founder of Brkly Productions (creative work includes: Project Runway, Top Chef, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, America's Next Great Restaurant and more).

Although women continue to fare better in documentary work, Martha Lauzen's 2015 study shows that only 37 % of documentary producers, 34 % of executive producers, 29 % of directors, 29 % of writers, 23 % of editors, and 13 % of cinematographers are women.101 When it comes to the industry recognizing and awarding female documentarians for their directorial works, women are at a complete disadvantage.

DVD Details: This great DVD comes with more extras that New Yorker normally comes up with: «work in progress» footage, deleted scenes, production notes, a making - of documentary and a director commentary track (in Swedish with English subtitles).

I chased The Other Side Of Hope with a film whose existential metaphors and appreciation for the drudgery and social habits of working stiffs couldn't be more different from Kaurismäki's droll, Capra-esque humanism: Good Luck (Grade: B), a striking documentary mood - piece by the American experimental director Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness).

But this neat little horror is also its own thing: Fiala and Franz have worked together once before on documentary «Kern» and Franz has co-written those aforementioned Seidl titles and more (they are married), but «Goodnight Mommy» shows the directors both embracing genre and going further with it than you might at first believe.

At Sundance this year, her life and tragic end was explored via two very different perspectives: Director Robert Greene's documentary KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE focused on actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she uncovered Chubbuck's persona and psyche via detective work.